Thursday 11th September 2025

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University launches changes to disciplinary policies on new webpage

CW: sexual assault Oxford University has published a new webpage setting out its “approach to preventing and responding to harassment and sexual misconduct”. The page brings together policies and guidance...

Oxford spinout OrganOx acquired by Terumo in record $1.5 billion deal

OrganOx, a University of Oxford spinout specialising in organ preservation technology, has been acquired...

Your Party society launched as ‘union of the left’ at Oxford

A new political society promising to “facilitate the discussion of left-wing ideas” has been...

Oxford colleges take Aviva to High Court in COVID-19 insurance case

Twenty-nine Oxford colleges have launched High Court proceedings against insurance firm Aviva. The case,...

Film Review: Lagerfield Confidential

by Mary WaireriRodolphe Marconi’s Lagerfeld Confidential is an intimate portrait of one of the most iconic figures of the fashion industry. Born in Hamburg...

Sceneplay: Ran

by Ross PhilipsIn today’s cinema the truly epic battle scene has been replaced by computer generated images. Although the capabilities of CGI to create...

I thought technology was supposed to make your life easier. Now I’m not so sure.

A friend of mine from my summer at BusinessWeek recently moved to a new job at another magazine. They gave her a new email...

Clocks Go Back This Sunday

A reminder: don't forget to change all your clocks tomorrow (Sunday).

Pubcast Week 3: The Week in Drama and Interview with Oscar Wood

Our weekly drama pubcast returns with a roundup of the week in Oxford drama and an interview with Oscar Wood, director of 'Big Breathe...

Drama Review: Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath

It’s hard to imagine a static, single-act monologue being so gripping, but Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath is nothing short of a theatrical...

Women’s Blues Hockey

The Blues looked to kickstart their faltering start to the campaign bytaking on newly-promoted Cardiff in a top-tier BUSA South Premier clash.Oxford started brightly...

‘Cannot tell their left hand from their right’

That's how the people of Nineveh are described the Book of Jonah, but we might equally claim it about the Germans. Or at least...

Genre Bending: La Nouvelle Scène Rock Française

By Chantal Hadley The nouvelle scène is, well, pretty self explanatory. It’s new: many of the bands in it have only released their debut albums...

Rock’n’Revolt

Cara Bleiman examines the relationship between music and politics.To ask whether music has the potential to be political is completely old hat, well old...

OxTales: Robin Whelan meets the founder of Oxford label Big Scary Monsters

Six years after Kevin Douch founded Big Scary Monsters, the Oxford-based label has established itself as a minor fixture in the industry. Set up...

Interview: Hard-Fi

By Roland ScarlettThe cheesy pop that defined the 90s is increasingly out of vogue and British music is searching for artistic credibility. Placing themselves...

Roisin Murph – Overpowered review

By Emma Butterfield**** I feel a certain affinity with Róisín Murphy, as she’s clearly a frustrated science undergraduate. Why else would she refer to oxytocin...

Land Of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss review

 By Carl Cullinane ***When is an album not an album? When it’s an agglomeration of an EP and some bonus tracks is certainly one answer,...

Oxford’s image problem is the least of our admissions worries

As an applicant from an FE college to Oxford, I found some problems with James Lamming’s argument that many of the criticisms levelled at...

Respect, revenue and results: it’s time for a central OUSU venue

Ambition takes you places. Warwick University Students’ Union has two buildings which house seven bars, two clubs and a pub, a pizza outlet, a...

Stage Whispers: The Exec

The first time I played a careers “game” in year eleven, I got policeman. Last week the Careers Service asked whether I’d considered something...

Admissions: the final target

Targets are to Labour what alcohol and age are to the Lib Dems: a fatal weakness. From targets to cut NHS waiting times to...

The One That Got Away

By Sam PritchardThere is not enough new writing performed in Oxford. Mounting a production of a play written by a student is a demanding...

Universities are not here to fix the faults of schools

I’ve never been a fan of the word “admissions”. Entry to a fairground is an admission. The red-faced explanation you make to the A&E...

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